November 13, 2013, Year 4, Issue 39

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Hungarian Expression

Original: Nem a szakáll teszi a filozófust. Translation: It is not the beard that makes the philosopher.

Look inside for: Round Table Page 2 Short Hungary News Page 2 & 3 Response by the HU government Page 3 CEU Debate Society Page 4 Giorgio Perlasca Page 5 Film Review: Who Will Be a Gurkha? Page 6 Verzio Film Festival Page 6 & 7 Cartoon Page 7 Upcoming events & Puzzle Page 8

Above: Homelessness in Hungary - What does the government say? Left: Media Freedom - Impressions from the informal CMCS meeting with Dunja Mijatović

Above: Short Hungary News - A sculpture of Miklos Horthy has been erected near CEU‘s main campus Left: The 10th Verzio Festival is over but we keep going. See film review and interview on page 6 & 7.

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Informal roundtable discussion with Dunja Mijatović

One of the things that I enjoy tmost about the CEU is the possibility to meet and discuss with practicing professionals. More-over, in an atmosphere where there are no politically correct or wrong answers. This informal roundtable discussion was a perfect example of that.On October 31, we had the opportunity to meet Dunja Mijatović in the Gellner room. Dunja is OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. This event was organized by the Center for Media and Communication Studies. This body of the OSCE deals with journalists’ safety and internet freedom. It can be called the only international media watchdog in the world because it monitors 57 countries. The OSCE members countries often refer to each other as club of democracies. However, Dunja Mijatović, in a very straightforward manner, pointed out that she often disagrees. In her opinion you cannot call yourself a democracy if you have issues with human rights compliance. She stated that today Russia and Macedonia are her two greatest worries. However, Dunja Mijatović also highlighted that Western countries, who are old democracies and have old tradi-tions with the press, are no longer the perfect role models either. For example, the United Kingdom’s new press self-regulation body is a serious set-back to media freedom in the country in the opinion of Dunja Mijatović. The participants laughed when Dunja pointed out that she always has to return to her strongest tool: Shaming. She thinks that this is more effective than silent diplomacy and has more measur-able outcomes. She joked that when the last representative left and she came into office, many diplomats were praising that with her a polite lady had arrived. This has not happened and Dunja

laughed that now diplomats want the old representative back. It was surprising to hear that her team does not make a show when they have freed confined journalists. In a sense it would be a good advertisement for their body to increase media attention. Yet, they are trying to have a profile as low as possible because they maybe just have to go back at one point. So it does make sense to maintain cordial relationships with diplomats and countries. Just some of the discussion topics from the informal roundtable were outlined here. For me this was one of the most interesting afternoons that I have had in the CEU. I strongly encourage other students to join this kind of events in the future. Besides that, CMCS usually offer snacks for the hungry students and the food is simply super delicious.

More Information on Dunja Mijatović and the OSCE can be found here: www.osce.org.

During the semster the Center for Media and Communication

Studies hosts a lunchtime "Media and Change Discussion Series" on

a regularly (usually biweekly) basis. Topics and dates can be

found here: www.cmcs.ceu.hu.

Karl Haljasmets

Estonia

Public Policy

More counter-demonstrators than demonstrators

On the 3rd of November, a nice Sunday morning, a sculpture of

Miklos Horthy (authoritarian governor of Hungary between 1920-

44) was inaugurated in a Calvinist church of Budapest on Sza-

badság tér, very close to CEU. The inauguration was organized by

Lóránt Hegedűs, Clavinist priest - well-known for his radical right-

ist legacy - and „Jobbik”, the strongest radical rightist party of

present-day Hungary. In anticipation of this event, by means of a

spontaneous Facebook campaign, a protest had been organized

a day earlier. Participants were invited to wear the yellow Star of

David which Jews were forced to wear in 1944-45 due to racial

legislation approved by Horthy. While 150 people joined the

sculpture-inauguration ceremony, 600 people protested it with

banners saying “Horthy is our shame” displayed both in English

and Romanian and with images showing Horthy chit-chatting with

Hitler in a car. The governing, allegedly central-rightist Fidesz

party disapproved this sculpture inauguration arguing that it could

provide new grounds on which foreign liberal and leftist press

may criticize Hungary. Luckily, the protest against it raised atten-

tion and awareness; the Hungarian Calvinist Church itself has de-

clared disapproval of Lóránt Hegedűs for allowing a political

event to take place in a church and for supporting hate speech.

Editorial note: On the reasons of controversies around the person

and politics of Miklos Horthy see a more detailed article in our

next issue.

So far 142 national tobacco shops closed

If you smoke, you may have noticed that recently in Hungary one

can buy cigarettes (legally) only in the network of the so called

“national tobacco shops”. If you do not smoke, you might have still

been informed about this in The CEU Weekly (See: For health,

morals and profits by a disgruntled smoker in our 37th issue). The

alleged goals of introducing this new system – largely criticized

for the corrupt process of assigning the permits to run them –

were to reduce smoking among underage people and to improve

health conditions of the population in general. Whereas prices of

tobacco and cigarettes increased and illegal cigarette import and

trade reach previously unseen peaks, apparently the original

goals are not being achieved either. The office for consumer pro-

tection closed down 142 national tobacco shops so far because of

the selling tobacco to underage customers. More than 200 irregu-

larities were discovered during 2600 controls and altogether 25

million HUF of penalties imposed.

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Short News from Hungary

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Response of the Hungarian government to the so-called criminalization of homeless people

HUNGARY NEWS

The Hungarian government feels deep sadness after being ac-cused of misusing all its might against those who are themselves power-less. Therefore we want to respond to the allegations regarding the so-called criminalization of homeless people. Is it not a great crime to deprave someone who owns little of his sole possession? If one owns only one lamb is not worse to take it from

him than to take it from the rich man who owns the flocks of herd? Is not the crime even more serious when freedom is everything one has and we simply take it away? If we agree, than it must be also true that Hungarian government imprisoning home-less people does not deserve anything but disdain. Alas, our dear constitution protects freedom as one of the sa-cred values and so this government does. And for a good reason. Free-dom provides the basis for all other rights. One cannot really live as he wishes if he is enslaved or even imprisoned. Yet everyone will agree that in fact there is a difference between freedom of the rich, freedom of the poor, not mentioning the freedom of the homeless. Therefore, we have to

pose the question: “Are the homeless people truly free and equal when their existence is reduced to mere survival?” People without home often find themselves locked in a vicious circle of despair. Without decent shelter and means of subsistence they become slaves of outer circumstances. They freeze being unable to challenge the hostility of weather, weakened by mal-nutrition they are not able to resist triv-ial illnesses. Moreover, many of them are addicted to various drugs thus con-demned to perish under their devastat-ing yoke. Our government simply tries to remove these weighty shackles and al-

low every person to be genuinely free in his pursuit for happiness. For us it is simply not enough that all people are free and equal in the eyes of the law when they are not as a matter of fact. Therefore the task of our government is not only to restrain ourselves from actions depraving one of his freedoms, but also their active protection. Hence we are equally mandated not to deprave man of his fortunes as we are mandated to reach out our arm to those who need it.

What may look as arbitrary imprisonment of homeless people is in fact a rehabilitative detention. Our government only solemnly tries to advert more suffering of this discrete and insular minority. Yes, we temporary limit their freedom to prevent their permanent enslavement and even pitiful death. However, we provide those people during their stay in rehabilitation facilities with sanitary conditions, all the medical

care and warm food. Moreover, we offer them means to get rid of their addictions. We give them opportunity to absolve various courses raising their qualification on the job market. The possibility to start live anew is offered to those people wretched by misfortunes. Guided by providence of our constitution we do not want to leave those poverty-stricken persons in their undignified misery. Because if there is striking inequality in freedoms how can we say that every per-son is treated with same worth? Our true intention is thus to restore their freedoms so they can become equal members of the community and cease to be its despised outcasts. This is not mandated only by constitu-tion ordering to give everyone the same value, the same worth, the same dignity, but also by the common-sense. One may legitimately ask if it is not enough to build shelters for needy where all the care will be given to them. Sadly, we do not see any other option than to insist on solution. People forced to live in the street for the long time get use to their misery and lack the will and disci-pline to step-out of their shadowy existence. At some stage help must be simply given to them even against their free will, so they can regain their self-respect. What may seem from the short-term perspective as discrimina-tory, cruel and derogatory incarceration appears from long-term view as beneficial both for society and individual. Well aware of malicious attacks and disrespect for our measures we will nevertheless not aban-don our duties and together with them those who need our help the most. Therefore we would stay firm and reverently dedicated to our cause, for we justly believe in its righteousness. If we will be denoted as paternalis-tic, we will take it as a compliment. For we know that we are using all the power entrusted to us by our people for their common good.

Erik Kotlárik Legal Studies

Slovakia Editorial note: This article is an imagined answer of the Hungarian gov-ernment in response to the recent outrage regarding the treatment of

homeless people in Budapest and Hungary.

MP guilty for domestic violence does not want to

leave the Parliament

On April 28, József Balogh MP beat his partner so gravely that

she had to be treated in a hospital for more than 8 days with a

broken nose and cheekbone and various other injuries. He denied

having hurt her, alleging instead that she had tripped and fallen

over their blind dog. Apparently, she did not see the dog ap-

proaching them as they exited their car, since she was drunk, fol-

lowing a night spent at a wedding. He held this shameful lie for

months. His party (Fidesz) pressured him to leave the party frac-

tion in Parliament and the party distanced itself from him. Never-

theless, Balogh has remained a member of parliament as an inde-

pendent representative. The parliament suspended his immunity on

September 16, and in early November Balogh underwent interro-

gation and admitted that he had indeed hit his partner. On No-

vember 6, Fidesz entirely dismissed him from the party. Although

his leaving the parliamentary fraction would not abolish his party

membership, he was called to redraw himself from the political

sphere. He yet continues his political career.

Ágnes Kelemen

Hungary Nationalism Studies

The Blind Komodor gained notoriety regarding the alleged fall of MP Balogh‘s partner. Balogh used the poor animal as a cover up for the

beating of his partner. Image: ARC Magazin

Image: ARC Magazin

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Hungarian Fairytale - Image: ARC Magazin

The Art of Debating – Meet the CEU Debate Society

The CEU Debate Society and The CEU Weekly is launching a series of publica-tions covering the issues the CEU Debate Society engages itself during its weekly practices. As an introduction we made an interview with the President and the Vice-President of the Debate Society, Zsófia Murányi and Endre Borbáth. TCW: What is the mission of the CEU De-bate Society?

Zsófi: Our main goal is to equip students with some of the skills which don't always re-ceive enough em-phasis in the stan-dard curriculum. Competitive uni-versity debating is an academic sort of sports, an exer-cise in critical think-ing, active listen-

ing, public speaking, engagement and ar-gumentation. We hold weekly practice de-bates to acquaint students with these skills. We also participate in international de-bate tournaments and organize our own! Endre: Besides all these, we usually debate questions which are fun to ask. For instance last time, the motion was “provided we have the technology this house would erase the memories of bad relationships” or pre-viously we debated whether technology should be used to lower our level of IQ, so we experience less anxiety in our every-day life. Both the pro side, the government -, and the con, the opposition benches are coming up with arguments and try to con-vince the judges about their perspective. In every instance the debate is something which inspires you to think outside of the box, and to challenge your own views. Of course, we also have more serious motions, on current affairs, international relations, economy, etc. TCW: How are the debates you are doing different from the debates CEU students have at the RC’s Bambus Bar? Zsófi: Our debates are very structured, everyone has to adhere to a set of formal rules and time constraints. But these rules don't merely exist for their own sake – they serve to create better, clearer debates and a more systematic process of improving personal skills. Additionally, in our debates you are assigned a position randomly, so you may have to defend a view you

strongly disagree with! Endre: I would also emphasize the role of structure and engagement. In our debates, precisely because of their competitive na-ture, you have to listen to the other side’s argument because if you do not rebut them you remain isolated in the debate and eventually you might lose. You have to make sure that you formulate your own arguments as clearly as possible so the judges and your opponents know what you meant and they engage with your points. TCW: Who can participate? Zsófi: Absolutely anyone, whether or not you have previous experience in debating. We are lucky to welcome not only current students but also many CEU alumni, people from other Budapest universities as well as some ambitious high school students at our practices. TCW: How can someone interested learn more? Where can we find you? Zsófi: Our Facebook page features a schedule of upcoming practices (just search for CEU Debate Society.) We also post regular updates there and on our mailing list. Interested students can send an email to debate@ceu.hu. TCW: What competitions have CEU teams already participated in this year? How did it go? Endre: We have been to Split Open in Croatia, where both CEU’s and Corvinus Univer-sity’s teams made their way into the final debate of the tournament. We also went to Belgrade Open, where we got close to breaking into the semifinal. Then, we or-ganized in collaboration with the Global Debate and Public Policy Challenge pro-gram a debate tournament in Budapest, where CEU’s team broke into the semifinal. And in August we went to the European Debating Championship in Manchester where we experienced how competitive debating looks like in one of the most pres-tigious tournaments. Zsófi: Additionally, the first tournament of the current semester, the Vienna Freshers' has just finished this past weekend. Two of our newest members bravely took part af-ter less than two months of training, and we are very proud of them!

TCW: What motivated you personally to get involved in the CEU Debate Society? Zsófi: I've always been a bit of a squab-bler, I like to argue for argument's sake, but I also had a huge problem with stage fright. When members of the Debate Soci-ety came to hold a demonstration debate at my previous university, I was very im-pressed and wanted to learn to express ideas on controversial issues with the strength and eloquence I saw in the speak-ers there. My current motivation after two years' experience as a debater is to be-come a good trainer and help spread the values of debating. Endre: I first heard about academic debat-ing in Romania, and I was very much inter-ested in the movement, since the whole idea of having a structured clash of ideas on a topic of general interest seemed more than appealing. I had a blog at the time, plus I was writing articles for a news website, and I guess I thought of debating as some-thing which complements all these and eventually helps me with formulating my ideas more clearly. At the time, I did not have any available debate societies to join, so when I came to CEU this was among my priorities and signing up for them was one of the first things I did at the Welcome Afternoon. TCW: Besides the regular meetings what other activities have you planned for this year? Endre: We will organize the Budapest Open debate tournament which is the big-gest student organized events at CEU tar-geting non-CEU students. In March 2014 we will have the third edition of the tournament which in previous years was attended by more than 100 teams, from approx. 45 countries, representing Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Canada and the United States. It is organized on a voluntary basis in collaboration with Corvinus and ELTE uni-versities’ debate societies, with the goal of promoting debating in Hungary, and pro-viding the opportunity to our debaters to take part in one of the best European inter-national tournaments without leaving their beloved Budapest. Zsófi: We would also like to hold a series of policy debates on current affairs of in-terest to the CEU community.

Interview by Julia Michalsky, History,

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2013 is a year of many noble causes, among others the year of the “Hungarian-Italian Cultural Season” dedicated to the friendship between the two countries first of all in cultural terms. Such seasons and years claimed as “special” - involving special financial involvement of governmental institutions - lead us to ask “Well, and what about culture/friendship among nations/whatever is the noble cause, in all the other years?”. At the same time they really make sponsors more willing to finance projects and remind public opinion of important issues from time to time. One very important result of the “Hungarian-Italian Cul-tural Season” 2013 is the launching of a new educational projects titled “Budapest, Itinerary of Memory-On the Tracks of Giorgio Perlasca” (“Budapest, Itinerario della Memoria - sulle orme di Giorgio Perlasca") aiming to familiarize Italian students both with a hero, a Righteous among the Nations of Italian origin and the history of the Holocaust. Budapest is a popular destination of school excursions among Italian high schools, so the idea at the core of the project is that numerous Italian teenagers could learn about an important Italian hero, if these excursions to Budapest would be utilized in an educational way. As it is known, in the case of children and youth informal education – one of its methods is visiting places, where history actually happened – is usually much more efficient than teaching from only textbooks. In the frame-work of this new project a memorial excursion including all the places of Budapest connected to the Italian diplomat Giorgio Per-lasca will be part of the students’ program. The project was launched in Venice this September and also presented in Budapest in late October in the presence of Perlasca’s son.

Why is the person of Giorgio Perlasca so important for Italians, Hungarians, and for universal history? First of all he saved the lives of 5200 Hungarian Jews in Budapest during the Nazi and Arrow-Cross terror of 1944 and 1945 by forging thousands of fake safe-conducts (“Schutzpass”), by moving entire Jewish families to so called “protected houses” and by continuously pre-venting roundups in such buildings. However, his story is a bit more complex, which makes it more instructive. He was originally a Fascist, who fought in the Spanish Civil War on Franco’s side. That made it possible for him to find connections to Spanish Embassies whenever and wherever he wanted. So, when being in Budapest in the autumn of 1944 –opposing Mussolini’s North Italian Republic of Salò allied with Nazi Germany - he utilized his merits earned on the Fascist side of the Spanish Civil War to get connected to the Spanish Ambas-sador in Budapest who could issue safe-conducts for Jews as a representative of a neutral country. However, with the Soviet army approaching Budapest from the East and the Nazi-allied Arrow-Cross government fleeing Budapest westwards, the Spanish ambassador left Budapest and Perlasca made himself independ-ent from anybody, pretended to be a substitute of the Spanish Ambassador which he was not, and used the stamps of the em-bassy left behind. So, he was a man of Fascist political conviction, who once facing what the allies of Mussolini’s Italy were doing against hu-manity, did everything he could do to save lives. He became a righteous man just as simply as many people became perpetrators or bystanders. He broke all the laws imposed on him to serve uni-versal ethics. As he claimed in an interview much later: it was sim-ply what every sane people should have done, nothing special. His righteousness was just as banal, as Eichmann’s evilness accord-ing to Hannah Arendt’s theory on the banality of evil. Indeed, one of the biographies on Perlasca is titled “the Banality of Good-ness”.

Ágnes Kelemen, Nationalism Studies,

Hungary

Photo of Giorgio Perlasca: www.deliberatelyconsidered.com

Sculpture of Giorgio Perlasca in Budapest. Image: artes-liberales.hu

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Who Will Be a Gurkha? – Thoughts After a Movie

The 10th Verzio International Hu-man Rights Documentary Film Festival took place last week, running five days from Tuesday, November 5. The Nepalese docu-mentary Who Will Be a Gurkha?, directed by Kesang Tseten, was screened on Satur-day at Cirko-Gejzir cinema. The film is a Nepalese, British, Norwegian and Finnish 2012 coproduction.

But who are those gurkhas?

Nepalese gurkha form the elite military group of the British Army since World War I. The British preferred using gurkha corps in wars, since these young men are excep-tionally tenacious and move easily in the most dangerous terrains and battlefields. Although the colonial system has long been over, the gurkha corps continue recruiting young men between the age of 17 and 21. The recruitment process of gurkhas is very strict and has several rounds in Nepal. Roughly 8,000 men present themselves each year in Pokhara, where the selection procedure takes place.

The selection process has been the same since the 1900s, as black and white film extracts from the beginning of the 20th century have shown in the documentary. The boys have to perform several exer-cises to demonstrate their physical capabili-ties as soldiers. They must pass medical examinations and be deemed intellectually eligible to serve under the British flag. The recruiting staff is composed of former and recent gurkhas as well as British army offi-cials. The Nepalese recruitment officer ‘Sahid’ emphasizes several times in the film that the procedure is “free, fair and trans-

parent”, meaning that recruiters can-not be bribed into favoring any appli-cants. This assur-ance, however, is repeated often enough that one may start growing suspicious whether or not it is even true.

The militia chooses 300 men from all the appli-cants who are later transferred to a t ra i n i ng camp where the second phase of selection takes place. The final round consists of much more demanding physical and psychological ex-ercises. For instance, boys have to carry baskets weighing close to 25kg through forests in the mountain in 45 minutes. This is

the hard-est task of all. O n l y a r o u n d 1 8 0 y o u n g men are f i n a l l y chosen to serve in the Bri-gade of Gurkhas within the B r i t i s h Army. The ’ l u c k y ones’ are t h e n taken to t h e

United Kingdom where they get their offi-cial training before they are sent to Af-ghanistan, Iraq or to other regions smitten by war.

Many boys apply 2 or 3 times in their lives, basically each year, to get into the Brigade. At interviews they admit that the main reason why they apply is because they have no other possibilities in Nepal due to poverty and lack of job opportuni-ties. Serving as a gurkha in the British Army is well honored. Other young men want to help their families to reduce the debt they hoarded up over time. Only few of them

want to be professional soldiers vocation-ally. It is also important to mention that once a gurkha is retired he obtains the Brit-ish citizenship, and is entitled to settle down in Britain and receive a monthly allowance for life. So huge is this opportunity in the eyes of young Nepalese boys that these young men are willing to risk their lives in a foreign nation’s army. It is worth thinking about why these men choose to serve under the Union Jack instead of trying to “raise up” their country by staying, learning and working there. Many of them face oppres-sion due to the still existing caste system in their society. Once they are born into a caste, it is nearly impossible to break out, unless they choose to be part of the Bri-gade, where origin does not seem to mat-ter at all. It was sad seeing how these hardly 18 or 19-year-old boys were cry-ing and became so desperate upon being rejected in the selection process. Finally, quite controversial is the scene when the successfully admitted new gurkhas ceremo-niously take an oath in the presence of their relatives and are saluted in front of the photo of Queen Elizabeth II at the very end of the movie. These men might never return back to Nepal to see their relatives again, because hopelessness and necessity has forced them from home into the arms of war and death in distant terrains.

Eszter Kajtár,

Hungary,

Public Administration

More information about the gurkhas is available on the British Army’s website: www.army.mod.uk/gurkhas/27856.aspx

More information about the movie is avail-able here: www.taskovskifilms.com/film/

Image: www.dailymail.co.uk

Image: www.militaryphotos.net

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CULTURE –Verzio Festival November 13, 2013, Year 4, Issue 39

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Interview with a Verzio volunteer

CEU Weekly caught up with a CEU student last week to find out how she is helping with the Verzio Film Festival. This year, Silvija Bumbak, from the History department, is a student jury member for Verzio. What are you doing for Verzio? I am student jury member - this year, one of 5. There are around 60 films being shown for the festival and our job is to look at those films that have been pre-selected. These films, around 13 this year, all deal with human rights. As jury members, we have to see all of these films, coming from all over the world. Basically, we discuss the films, decide on the best one, and finally pick a winner for best human rights documentary film of the festival – the prize money is 100,000 HUF. The winner is announced at the clos-ing ceremony. Of course, we have to submit a draft statement arguing why we have chosen that particular film – this will not be too long, but will be read out at the closing ceremony on Sunday as well. The criteria we set, before we started watching the films, concentrates primarily on the film’s originality/novelty, how suc-cessful the director and filmmakers delivers the intended message (i.e. presents the issue of human rights), we consider the universal-ity of the problem (who it affects, where and why) – as well the equally important technical aspects; the editing/format/directorial style etc, and finally the impact the film has on the au-dience (the hardest thing to judge!). How are you finding the experience? A bit hectic. This is an important year for Verzio, its 10 year anni-versary. For me, the experience of being a student jury member is

something new. I haven’t been involved in something like this be-fore, meaning that I have never formally reviewed/judged movies in this way. So far, I’m finding it definitely improves your argu-mentative skills (we will have our major discussion on Sunday, nar-row it to five and then pick the winner). Hopefully we will all agree! We meet and discuss briefly after each movie, and it’s nice to get a chance to do something you enjoy. I’ve never been particularly involved with documentaries before either, so it’s a different genre to explore and discuss. Plus, being a jury member means free entrance to the movies, which isn’t bad at all! What do you think about the Verzio film festival?

As I mentioned, I haven’t previously been so engaged with docu-

mentary films. This year, I’ve really enjoyed watching them. Now I

have a different standpoint on the whole idea of documentaries

and the idea behind them. Especially when you are watching them

– 3 or 4 per day – it can really change your perspective. You

feel the weight of the issues being presented – some of them I find

relevant, some were less broadly relevant. Gain an idea of the

idea of authenticity (though of course, some documentaries are in

some senses more staged and pre-prepared). Now I would put

documentary films ahead of other genres in potential for present-

ing actual problems. I would highly encourage others to apply to

be a jury member next year, and of course, to check out the films.

Interview by Imogen Bayley, New Zealand,

History

Cartoon by Eriksson: Happy Harvest

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This is a student-alumni initiative that seeks to provide CEU with a regularly issued newspaper. We publish our articles and additional materials on our blog as well: www.ceuweekly.blogspot.hu Editor in Chief: Ágnes Kelemen Authors of this issue: Imogen Bayley, Karl Haljasmets, Eszter Kajtár, Ágnes Kelemen, Alexandra Kocsis, Erik Kotlárik, Julia Michalsky, Olha Pushchak

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Upcoming events Beat Generation / Allen Ginsberg “This is not, in a classic sense, an exhibition, where works are hung on walls, but far more a visual and acoustic anthology…”, announces

French curator, Jean-Jacques Lebel, the next show at the Ludwig Museum. For two months the world of the American Beat Generation will be visible and audible through performances, films, texts, photos, discussions, reproductions and unpublished documents in Budapest. Dates: 9 November 2013 – 12 January 2014 Location: Ludwig Múzeum – Museum of Con-temporary Art More information: www.ludwigmuseum.hu Budapest Secret Theatre: Ancient History Love comedy performed in English about mod-ern relationships by American playwright David Ives. At first glance, it seems that Ruth and Jack are perfectly suited. However, when things are getting serious, it turns out that their dreams and views of the world are not compatible. Will they break up or marry each other? Find out in the Atrium Theatre on 23 November. Dates: 23 November & 5 December 2013 Location: Atrium Film-Színház

More information:www.atriumfilmszinhaz.hu www.facebook.com/events/276661762458663/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular “False Testimony” - Hajnal Németh and Zoltán Kékesi

OSA’s Centralis Gallery presents a contempo-rary art exhibition on the Tiszaeszlár Trial of 1883. During the case, local Jewish men were accused with the ritual murder of a 14-year-old girl, Eszter Solymosi. This is the moment of 19th century history, when modern Anti-Semitism in Hungary was born. Central pieces of the exhi-bition are videos reenacting the key scenes of the trial – placed in a 21th century Hungarian office. A series of photographs also directs at-tention to the present by showing the contempo-rary right-wing cult of Eszter Solymosi. Dates: 15 November – 15 December 2013 Location: OSA Archivum –Galéria Centrális More information: www.osaarchivum.org ArtBazaar The gift giving season is around the corner, so why don’t you already start looking? Various local designers will sell their handmade prod-ucts at the ArtBazaar at MűvelődésiSzint. So take a chance at getting something more crea-tive than a box of chocolates for your Mom and a pair of socks for your father.

Dates: 17 December 2013 Location:Blaha Lujza tér 1,1085 Budapest More information: www.muszi.org/?event=artbazaar-3 Flea VINIPYCH - more than just fashion! This evening is organized to help collect dona-

tions for children with autism. Share your old skirts and dresses with other guests, and get an opportunity to donate 20% of the profit to the Flora Foundation. It is requested to send a photo and information about the dress that you would like to sell to the following email: flea.vinipych@gmail.com. Dates:14 December 2013, 18:30 Location:85 Király utca 1/2, 1077 Budapest More information: www.facebook.com/events/218554714935669/?source=1

Alexandra Kocsis, Medieval Studies,

Hungary

Julia Michalsky, History,

Germany